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With less than four months to go before the start of the Olympics, Beijing is nearing the home stretch in its efforts to clean up its air. On Monday environmental authorities announced the latest set of measures to ensure that athletes and spectators won't be subjected to the city's notorious pollution...
...Shaozhong, deputy head of the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau, told reporters Monday that the region of Inner Mongolia, the neighboring city of Tianjin and nearby provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, and Shandong would strengthen air pollution controls as well, but he did not give specifics. Those measures will be key because research has shown that even if Beijing could eliminate all its homegrown emissions, pollution from the surrounding region could push the capital's air to dangerous levels. The capital is also expected to restrict the use of private vehicles during the Games...
...with over 100 other university presidents and athletic directors wrote a letter condemning the NCAA for allegedly promoting irresponsible or underage drinking through its advertisements, and recommending that the tournament eliminate all alcohol advertising. While we understand the sentiment, getting rid of beer ads is the wrong move. By airing the ads, the NCAA is not encouraging underage or binge drinking—or even endorsing drinking at all. The suggestion that the NCAA is expressing an opinion in favor of the products it allows to be advertised is absurd. Although the NCAA is certainly willing and within its rights...
...option Massachusetts has already made great progress in with its maintenance of 20 Offices of Community Corrections throughout the state, all of which provide education, counseling, and rehabilitation for prisoners after their release. Regardless of the outcome of Patrick’s bill, change is already in the air for prisoners in the state of Massachusetts. Let us hope this is the first of many progressive initiatives in this regard...
Berlusconi could be pulled towards the right by his biggest ally, the anti-immigrant Northern League party, which garnered an impressive 8% to 9% of the vote, as of late polling Monday. The most immediate outcome of the vote may be to scuttle negotiations for Air France-KLM to takeover ailing national carrier Alitalia, which both Berlusconi and the Northern League had openly opposed...